Pearson is the world’s leading learning company. Our portfolio includes Penguin, the Financial Times and our educational business, Pearson International. Imprints including Longman and Prentice Hall combine 150 years of experience with online support for every learner. We made major investments in education policy, research and development every year. We believe that it is vital to link curriculum, content, assessment and professional development of teachers in a much more systematic way to make the whole process of teaching and learning more effective. We and our colleagues, in more than 70 countries and over 100 languages, look to share this belief with our partners and learners.

Pearson Learning Solutions works in conjunction with all Pearson divisions around the world to support our customers from schools, professional organisations, vocational institutions, higher education and government departments in building customised education solutions drawing on our full range of assets and capabilities. At Pearson, we take learning personally. Our courses and resources are available as books, online and via multi-lingual packages, helping people learn whatever, wherever and however they choose. Every day our work helps learning flourish, and wherever learning flourishes, so do people.

Pearson International Strategies

Teaching the world English
Playing a much more direct role in delivering better education
Setting the global benchmark for measuring student progress
Applying technology to transform and personalise learning

English Language Teaching

Private Language Schools

Wall Street Institute is the premier provider of English instruction for adults around the world. Our innovative Wall Street Institute Method, which focuses on teaching people to understand and speak English, integrates interactive lessons, self-study in workbooks, and small classes led by native English speaking teachers to provide the most effective English language instruction available.

Founded in 1972, Wall Street Institute has successfully taught over 2 million students through its over 400 centers in 28 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and The Middle East. Wall Street Institute's international offices are in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States and Barcelona, Spain.

Admissions Testing - Pearson Test of English

We offer a range of English testing services approved by key industry bodies for a variety of purposes.

PTE Academic is an innovative computer based test of academic English.

PTE General is a Six paper-based exams for teenagers and young adults.

PTE Young Learners offers Four levels designed to be interesting and fun for children.

Pearson Vue

Pearson VUE delivers certification and licensure tests through the world's largest network of test centres in 165 countries across the world.

English Language Teaching

English Language Teaching (ELT) is flourishing as the world looks to globalisation for economic and social development in the 21st Century. English is the language of choice for people to communicate in business, education and international government relations. ELT provides courses and materials to teachers to enable them to deliver high quality language learning for students of all ages.

Teaching & Learning

Digital and Print Content

Supporting educators through the development of high quality print and digital resources. At Pearson we believe in the successful integration of technology and learning at every level of education and are constantly evaluating and evolving products as we look to harness the power of new technologies.

Custom Publishing

Custom-designed courseware ranging from targeted curriculum and programs to individual courses and complete process improvement. Used in the classroom or online, delivered right to your Learning Management System. Each course had to be re worked in order to function properly online. Pearson's Custom Curriculum group restructured each course with new online courseware, curricula, and content.

Tutoring

TutorVista's online tutoring is done using an interactive whiteboard to work problems, simulations, assessments and other tasks. Our sessions are just like working face to face with a tutor. They are just more convenient and fun.

Connect to a tutor instantly or schedule a tutoring session with your preferred tutor and work on building prerequisite skills in whatever subject you need, on the spot at an extremely affordable prices.

Professional Development International

Pearson’s promise to improve teacher effectiveness. Pearson has the knowledge, experience and resources to support school leaders and education ministries to improve teacher quality and skills. Our mission worldwide is to offer programs, which ensure the acquisition, improvement and mastery of skills contributing to teacher improvement and effectiveness. Operating in over 60 countries, we lead our markets in quality and innovation providing a range of professional development services ranging from teacher education, assessment, coaching, and mentoring and leadership development. Leveraging the assets of our family of businesses, we are able to offer highly flexible, customizable solutions to ensure we help our customers succeed through the power of education. Pearson’s scale means that we can offer a single source for content development, certification and assessment. As the sole provider of these elements for the new we can provide a fully integrated, compatible, seamless solution of the highest quality, as well as dedicate appropriate resources to ensure smooth and efficient implementation.

School Improvement - Pearson School Model

To help develop, sustain and accelerate successful schools, we’re designing a Pearson School Model. Our approach recognises and accommodates the starting point, needs, constraints and particularities of every school.

Central to this is our School Improvement Matrix. Our aim is for it to act as a guide to help schools work out where they are on their improvement journey so that our team can help them to identify what they need to do to improve no matter what their starting point. Look across the indicators on our School Improvement Matrix where would your school be on its journey?

Qualifications & Curriculum

Edexcel is the largest UK awarding body and one of the largest in the world offering internationally recognized academic and vocational qualifications, with a history linked to the University of London that dates back nearly 200 years. Edexcel provides academic, vocational and workplace qualifications and assessments. Edexcel qualifications prepare and certify people for University and for employment.

Our suite of academic qualifications include: International Primary and Lower Secondary Curriculum, Edexcel International GCSE, GCSE, GCE A-Levels, as well as our International Diploma.

Edexcel also offers an unrivalled suite of BTEC qualifications covering a wide variety of employment sectors, there are over 1000 standard BTEC qualifications spread over more than 15 industry sectors from entry to post-graduate level.

Testing & Assessment

Formative Assessments

MyLabs (Instructor-led, self-paced mastery program)
A series of online products that not only deliver traditional textbook content; they offer outcomes based on self-assessment, personalized study paths, customized teaching resources, and powerful results reporting.

Language Testing

Versant
The quick, objective and accurate solution for assessing spoken language skills. Formerly known as the Spoken English Tests (SET), Versant™ tests are the only completely automated tests of spoken languages. Using patented speech processing technology from Ordinate.

Clinical & Talent Assessment

Cogmed Working Memory Training
An evidence-based, computerized training programme designed to improve attention by effectively increasing working memory capacity over a 5 week training period. Cogmed has a unique and outstanding record of strong and lasting positive results. It really does make a difference to improving people’s lives. The Cogmed programme improves attention by training working memory. Studies consistently show that most people with attention deficits have a working memory deficit. Working memory is critical for focusing, appropriately shutting out distractions, and for complex thinking. 8 of 10 users who complete training show measurable results.

Technology & Services

Virtual Learning Environments

Pearson LearningStudio
Pearson LearningStudio enables comprehensive, flexible, personalised online and blended learning. This learning platform is specifically developed for colleges and universities, giving faculty and administrators the integrated platform, deep assessment and reporting tools, they need to create, manage and measure successful online or blended learning experiences.

Fronter
Fronter is a leading, easy-to-use web-based platform for learning and collaboration. Schools, colleges and universities worldwide are selecting Fronter for its user-friendliness, innovation, stability and scalability. This award winning platform has been developed in close cooperation with users around the world and features a comprehensive set of tools to help teachers increase involvement and raise standards:

Creation of virtual classrooms
Creation of individualised study plan
Sharing of teaching materials
Collaborative learning such as forums
Online grading

Digital Content Management

Equella
A powerful Digital Repository that is revolutionizing the way institutions search, manage, and create content online. It can be implemented as a single repository for research, libraries and learning objects in all types of academic institutions, including schools, community colleges, universities and state systems. EQUELLA is also deployed for copyright resource collections, research materials, managing and exposing materials through web sites and portals, content authoring, workflow, institutional policy and document management.

SIS/MIS

PowerSchool
The fastest-growing, most widely used web-based student information system, supporting nearly 10 million students in all 50 states and 65 countries. PowerSchool enables today's educators to make timely decisions that impact student performance while creating a collaborative environment for parents, teachers and students to work together in preparing 21st century learners for the future.With over 200 built-in reports and thousands of pages and functions, PowerSchool has the most robust feature set of any SIS available to educators today. In order to make the system accessible to all users: administrators, teachers, parents, and students, PowerSchool has evolved over the last decade to stay abreast of the latest web design standards. Users are presented with a simple and elegant interface that organizes the system in a way that makes sense for users of all experience and ability levels.

ESIS
An enterprise-wide, web-based, education data management solution, providing administrators and teachers access to real-time information to effectively assess and support student achievement.
SchoolNet
The Schoolnet Instructional Improvement System (IIS) is your all-in-one solution to integrate teaching, learning, data and achievement. Our solution integrates the software, tools and services that drive achievement for millions of K-12 students. With a single solution, Schoolnet can provide educators with:

Formative Assessment Tools

Data Management & Reporting

Instructional Support

Curriculum Management

Response to Intervention

Student & Parent Access

Educator Development

Data Interoperability

Since 1997, Pearson, government agencies, state departments of educations and other industry leaders have worked together to develop the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF). SIF is a neutral consortium (SIF Association) that develops standards that allow districts to select and integrate various best-of-breed applications into a single enterprise-level system. SIF ensures that your instructional and administrative software applications can share information seamlessly across multiple applications.

SIF simplifies data exchange among all types of instructional and administrative applications. Student Information Systems (SIS) software, transportation and food service software, library automation systems, learning management systems, assessment management, state reporting and directory management systems can seamlessly interoperate with the use of SIF. The key benefit being that districts gain immediate access to all their data ,including information stored in different systems. This means districts can make important decisions based on real-time data.

In order to benefit from SIF, districts must purchase a Zone Integration Server. A ZIS is the central middleware component of SIF. The SIFWorks Enterprise ZIS is the industry's premier ZIS. Used in more SIF installations than any other, the SIFWorks Enterprise ZIS is SIF 2 certified and delivers full support for all versions of the SIF standard. The SIFWorks Enterprise ZIS has been certified with the full complement of SIF security and authentication levels and runs on a variety of popular operating systems. It is a standalone solution, requiring no third-party messaging or database components.

Learning Analytics

Pearson LearningStudio
The LearningStudio allows large institutions to exercise centralized administrative and curriculum control throughout particular geographical regions. It also offers powerful online communication tools as well as an easy–to-use system for instructors or administrators to author and publish supplementary content.
SchoolNet
The Schoolnet Instructional Improvement System (IIS) is your all-in-one solution to integrate teaching, learning, data and achievement. Our solution integrates the software, tools and services that drive achievement for millions of K-12 students. With a single solution, Schoolnet can provide educators with:

Formative Assessment Tools
Data Management & Reporting
Instructional Support
Curriculum Management
Response to Intervention
Student & Parent Access
Educator Development

For more details, please contact us at contactSolutions@pearson.com.